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NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive

AN-2 / AP-161 / LSV-6 Montauk
AKN-6 Galilea

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Xray - November NEXN

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

Laid down as Net Layer, Montauk (AN-2), 14 April 1942, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1) at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, MS.

Launched, 14 April 1943

Reclassified a Transport (AP-161), 2 August 1943

Reclassified an Osage Class Landing Ship Vehicle, 21 April 1944

Placed in partial Commission for ferrying to her completion yard, Todd Shipyards, Brooklyn, N.Y. for completion as a Landing Ship Vehicle

Commissioned USS Montauk (LSV-6), 21 April 1944, CDR. Alfred R. Boileau in command

During World War II Montauk was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the:

Okinawa Gunto operation

Reclassified and renamed USS Galilea (AKN-6) a Net Cargo Ship, 1 October 1946

Decommissioned in July 1947 at Charleston. S.C.

Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Charleston Group

Custody assigned to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) in August 1960

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 September 1961

Transferred to the National Defense Reserve Fleet James River, Lee Hall, VA. in 1962,

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 26 June 1973, to Alberti Equipment Inc.

Montauk received one battle star for her World War II service

LSV Specifications:
Displacement 4,626 t.(lt)
Length 458'
Beam 60' 2"
Draft 20'
Speed 21 kts.
Complement 458
Troop Accommodations 122 Officers, 1236 Enlisted
Boats 19 LVT or 29 DUKW
Armament

two single 5"/38 cal. Duel Purpose Gun Mounts

four twin 40mm AA gun mounts

twenty single 20mm AA gun mounts
Propulsion four Combustion Engineering 2-drum boilers, 2 General Electric Geared turbines, two shafts

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Montauk (LSV-6)
	21k	Montauk (LSV-6) underway off New York soon after completion of her LSV conversion in October 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 31 Design 18L US Navy photo	Hyperwar US Navy in World War II web site
	101k	Montauk (LSV-6) underway off New York soon after completion of her LSV conversion in October 1944. US Navy photo # NH 104262 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
	54k	Montauk (LSV-6) moored pierside, date and location unknown.	Amphibious Forces World War II web site
	50k	Montauk (LSV-6) underway, date and location unknown.	Robert Hurst
USS Galilea (AKN-6)
	88k	Galilea (AKN-6) at the Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, S.C., 17 February 1947. The yard is preparing the ship for inactivation following cancellation of her conversion to a net cargo ship in December 1946. There is little evidence of the conversion in this photo; most of the alterations were at the stern or inside the ship. US Navy photo # NH 104250 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center